Palette



Nov. 10 1925- 1,560,837

M. s. MASTRUKOFF PALET'I'IE Filed Jan. 6; 1925 M/CHA 1. 5'. MAS THU/(OFF //v VENTOR Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES MICHAEL s. MAs'rnUKoFm'or NEwYonK, N. Y.

PALETTE.

Application filed January 6, 1925. Serial No. 801. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL S. MAsrRU- KOFF, citizen of Russia, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Palettes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to palettes or shallow trays used by the artists in mixing colore and paints, and has a particular reference to palettes used in mixing water colors.

The object of my invention is to provide a palette especially suitable for the use of thin and wide brushes or, more particularly,

for the use of my new and improved method in applying water colors by means of wide strips of cardboard.

My invention is more fully described; in the accompanying specification and drawing in which Fig. 1 is a plan or top view of my palette,

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 3

is a longitudinal section on the line 3-3, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a palette made of glass or porcelain.

My palette consists of a flat piece of metal or similar material 1, formed with long and narrow troughs or grooves 2. These grooves or depressions are arranged in substantially parallel directions and preferably in straight of applying water colors), at the same time providing an uniform covering of the brush 1 Y or cardboardwith the color throughout full width of this brush.

The edges 3 of the palette are bent down all around so as to form an uniform and even edge 4 at the bottom for the palette to rest on the flat surface of a table. The edges, bent all around as shown, add greatly to the appearance of the palette, so that, such a palette, made of a thin metal and properly enameled, may have the appearance of an article made of porcelain.

Of course, my palette may be made of any suitable materiahand Fig. 4c shows such a palette made of glassor porcelain.

The walls of the grooves may be also curved, but any such curvature must be only in a cross section, as longitudinally the wallsfand the grooves should be arranged along straight lines in order to facilitate theuse of flat brushes, as mentioned above.

My palette has special and important advantages over ordinary palettes, when used in connection with my method of applying colors with a thin wide brush or a cardboard, as it gives an uniform distribution of coloring material throughout the full width of the brush.

I claim as my invention:

A palette of a substantially elongated rectangular form and provided with a plurality of parallel grooves extending lengthwise through said palette and terminating near its ends, each of said grooves forming a long and narrow trough from one end of said palette to the other and adapted to contain a coloring liquid.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York January i MICHAEL S. MASTRUKOFF. i 

